Ivy Hu, Professor and Chair, Department of Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, “Urban Spatial Structure and Travel in China.”

Taehee Hwang, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Indiana University Bloomington, “Ecosystem processes at the watershed scale: Linking vegetation dynamics with watershed-scale hydrologic behavior.”

Lei Zou, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, “Understanding and Building Disaster Resilience Capacity through Social Media.”

David Wong, Professor, Department of Geography &Geoinformation Science, George Mason University, “Measuring segregation: Is Geography a “curse” or leverage?”

Adriana E. Martinez,  Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Department of Environmental Science, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, “Fences on the Front era: The Impacts of the U.S.-Mexico Border Fence on the Rio Grande River.”

Charles J. Paradis, Assistant Professor, Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, "What I did last summer: simulated flood events at a uranium-contaminated field site."

GIS Day week

Wei Fan, Ph.D student, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Dissertation Proposal “Urban functional zone mapping using convolutional neural network (CNN) combined with volunteered geographic information (VGI).”

Ryan Filbin, Ph.D student, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Dissertation proposal, “The Waukesha and Foxconn Diversions and the Impacts of Diversions on Great Lakes Water Policy.”

Eric Tate, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Iowa, TBD